Valley View Bridge

Valley View Bridge
Valley View Bridge as viewed from the east, 2012
Coordinates41°24′31″N 81°38′02″W / 41.408552°N 81.633843°W / 41.408552; -81.633843 (Valley View Bridge)
Carries I-480
CrossesCuyahoga River
Ohio and Erie Canal
Csx Rail Line
Canal Road
W. Canal Road
Ohio/Erie Towpath Trail
LocaleValley View and Independence,
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Maintained byOhio Department of Transportation, District 12
ID number1812521
1812548
Characteristics
Designsteel multi-stringer highway girder bridges
Total length4,150 feet (1,260 m)
Height215 feet (66 m)[1]
Longest span300 feet (91 m)
History
Construction start1972 (outer spans), 2018 (middle span)
Construction end1975 (outer spans),[2] 2020 (middle span)[3]
Opened1977 (outer spans),[4] 2020 (middle span)[3]
Statistics
Daily traffic180000
Location
Map

The Valley View Bridge is a trio of steel multi-stringer highway girder bridges that carry Interstate 480 over the Cuyahoga River valley in Valley View and Independence, Ohio. They are 215 feet (66 m) high and 4,150 feet (1,260 m) long.[1][5]

  1. ^ a b Rudder, John (January 6, 2020). "Upon completion, I-480 Valley View bridge will carry 12 lanes of traffic across Cuyahoga River Valley". WEWS-TV. Retrieved January 7, 2020. At any given time, 180,000 vehicles use the I-480 Valley View bridges which sit high above the Cuyahoga River Valley at 215 feet. [...] [Amanda McFarland, spokesperson, Ohio Department of Transportation District 12:] This middle bridge is going remain and it's going to carry two lanes in each direction. It will kind of serve as like an express lane and it will help motorists who don't want to access the 77 interchange to bypass it.
  2. ^ "Valley View Bridge Fact Sheet" (PDF). Ohio Department of Transportation. 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Staff (September 13, 2020). "New I-480 Valley View Bridge Open to Eastbound Traffic" (Press release). Ohio Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  4. ^ Sangiacomo, Michael (February 22, 2011). "Driver dies when truck cab falls 200 feet from I-480 bridge". The Plain Dealer. Advance Ohio. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  5. ^ "Interstate 480".[self-published source]